This article provides the first history and critique of Australia’s private refugee sponsorship program, the Community Support Program (CSP). As more countries turn to community sponsorship of refugees as a means to fill the “resettlement gap,” Australia’s model provides a cautionary tale. The CSP, introduced in 2017, does not expand Australia’s overall resettlement commitment but instead takes places from within the existing humanitarian resettlement program. The Australian program charges sponsors exorbitant application fees, while simultaneously prioritizing refugees who are “job ready,” with English-language skills and ability to integrate quickly, undermining the principle of resettling the most vulnerable. As such, we argue that the C...
This article examines the main features of ‘The Coalition’s Operation Sovereign Borders Policy’, rel...
The year 2011 marked the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention. It is thus an ap...
In 2013, the newly elected Australian conservative government implemented the so-called Operation So...
AbstractThis article provides the first history and critique of Australia’s private refugee sponsors...
More than a dozen states are exploring the potential of introducing community sponsorship programs a...
For over 40 years, Canada’s Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program has combined government financial a...
This article argues that the many reasons for softening Australia’s position on refugees are idealis...
Since the end of World War II, successive governments have helped more than 800,000 refugees and dis...
Introduction Australia has a long history of accepting refugees and other humanitarian entrants fro...
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2014When Australia pledged to accept 15,000 Jewish refugees f...
Australia operates a dedicated Humanitarian Programme that offers resettlement for refugees and othe...
The Australian Federal Government announced in early September 2015 that the country committed to ta...
This paper will analyze how the recent changes, since 2010, to the private sponsorship of refugees (...
Since the late 1990s, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has be...
In the wake of the Coalition Government’s narrow victory in the first Australian election since the ...
This article examines the main features of ‘The Coalition’s Operation Sovereign Borders Policy’, rel...
The year 2011 marked the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention. It is thus an ap...
In 2013, the newly elected Australian conservative government implemented the so-called Operation So...
AbstractThis article provides the first history and critique of Australia’s private refugee sponsors...
More than a dozen states are exploring the potential of introducing community sponsorship programs a...
For over 40 years, Canada’s Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program has combined government financial a...
This article argues that the many reasons for softening Australia’s position on refugees are idealis...
Since the end of World War II, successive governments have helped more than 800,000 refugees and dis...
Introduction Australia has a long history of accepting refugees and other humanitarian entrants fro...
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2014When Australia pledged to accept 15,000 Jewish refugees f...
Australia operates a dedicated Humanitarian Programme that offers resettlement for refugees and othe...
The Australian Federal Government announced in early September 2015 that the country committed to ta...
This paper will analyze how the recent changes, since 2010, to the private sponsorship of refugees (...
Since the late 1990s, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has be...
In the wake of the Coalition Government’s narrow victory in the first Australian election since the ...
This article examines the main features of ‘The Coalition’s Operation Sovereign Borders Policy’, rel...
The year 2011 marked the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention. It is thus an ap...
In 2013, the newly elected Australian conservative government implemented the so-called Operation So...